Posted by sigismund on January 30, 2012, at 16:16:26
In reply to Re: Red and blue states, posted by Dinah on January 29, 2012, at 21:26:20
>Moderates just do not fare well.
Shades of grey are harder to defend than black and white?
Right now we have 'Turn back the boats. No new taxes.' and we had 'We shall decide who comes to this country and the circumstances in which they come', and thinking back to Stalin (always useful when you are thinking of what triumphs when) 'We are not a coterie of personal friends. We are the executive committee of the working class'.
Joe Bageant has all this stuff about the Scots Irish, meaning those border Scots who were sent to (I think Northern?) Ireland by James I and who subsequently moved to the US, quite early on.
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